Alternative Energy / Renewable Energy

Mar 08, 2012 at 16:57 | John Daly

On 7 March the government of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that Sydney would house the country’s new Clean Energy Finance Corp., announced in 2011 as part of…

Mar 06, 2012 at 18:12 | John Daly

It’s hard not to be downcast when reading much of the news from Africa, ravaged as it is by wars, hunger, poverty, famine and rapacious Western companies intent on exploiting…

Mar 05, 2012 at 17:53 | John Daly

While foreign investors drool over Africa’s hydrocarbon reserves, the Dark Continent also has vast reserves of largely untapped renewable energy, from the Magreb’s immense solar potential to Africa’s mighty rivers.

Mar 04, 2012 at 10:59 | John Daly

While most Western politicians remain enthralled by events unfolding in the Middle East during the Arab spring that unexpectedly blossomed a year ago, an equally dramatic political tectonic shift is…

Mar 03, 2012 at 13:01 | John Daly

The European Union has been hammered by the global recession that began in 2008. The recession has bit particularly hard into the EU’s newest members, the Central and Eastern European…

Feb 27, 2012 at 17:02 | Tom Murphy

When I first approached the topic of societal energy in 2004, I became aware for the first time that our energy future was not in the bag, and proceeded to…

Feb 25, 2012 at 12:12 | John Daly

On 30 May 2011, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster two months earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an "energy revolution" and that Germany would close all of…

Feb 23, 2012 at 18:06 | Daniel J. Graeber

While most major economies agree that some form of alternative and renewable resources are needed as part of the emerging energy mix, embracing frontier areas like wave arrays might be…

Feb 23, 2012 at 18:03 | Post Carbon

Gasoline prices in the U.S. are off on another tear. The national average just went by $3.57 for regular and due to a little problem of several major refineries that…

Feb 23, 2012 at 17:42 | Gloria Gonzalez

The US Department of Energy's (DOE) days as a financier of clean technologies are over thanks to the Solyndra backlash, but budget cuts would have prevented the department from functioning…

Feb 20, 2012 at 17:35 | Peter Sinclair

Remember last year when Germany decided to speed up its phasing out of nuclear power and switch to clean energy and everyone (not in the clean energy industry) got freaked…

Feb 16, 2012 at 18:04 | Daniel J. Graeber

Florida residents last year filed a legal challenge against a company that was planning to build a biomass incinerator in the Florida Panhandle. They complained the incinerator project was a…

Feb 16, 2012 at 17:45 | Science Progress

Take a deep breath, because what I’m about to tell you may be shocking: Federal loan guarantees for energy projects have been successful, cost-effective investments—contrary to what some conservatives insist…

Feb 09, 2012 at 16:52 | Juan Cole

Renewable energy is often thought of as an initiative of advanced, sane countries such as Portugal and Germany. But there is another arena where green energy is making an impact–…

Jan 31, 2012 at 17:18 | James Burgess

Hydrokinetic power shows great promise for growth as it can be theoretically installed in both industrial waterways such as wastewater treatment and food processing plants, and natural water ways without…

Jan 30, 2012 at 17:43 | John Daly

A global revolution is slowly transforming the world’s energy market, with traditional transnational fossil fuel conglomerates facing future changes that will transform their previously cozy environment, whether they like it…

Jan 26, 2012 at 17:34 | Barry Stevens

Converting Waste-to-Energy, and in particular MSW, are hot topics throughout the global landscape. The conversion process, which consists of a number of physical and complex chemical steps, serves a much…

Jan 25, 2012 at 17:49 | Tom Murphy

With the exception of tidal energy, our focus thus far has been on land-based energy sources. Meanwhile, the ocean absorbs a prodigious fraction of the Sun’s incident energy, creating thermal…

Jan 25, 2012 at 15:29 | James Burgess

Europe is the world leader in renewable energy generation, but as with all renewable energy sources they face the problem of reliability. One way of overcoming this limitation and ensuring…

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:38 | James Burgess

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first…